---
title: "Purge selected Matter content"
method: POST
path: "/matters/v1/{id}/content-purges"
tags: ["Matters"]
---

# Purge selected Matter content

`POST /matters/v1/{id}/content-purges`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.case.dev`
- URL: `https://api.case.dev/matters/v1/{id}/content-purges`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Queues an idempotent hard deletion of explicitly owned content while preserving the Matter, Vault, and unrelated content. Use unified matter.content_purge webhooks for completion, not polling.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `request_id` string, required: Stable caller idempotency ID; cannot be reused with different targets.
  - `object_ids` string[]
  - `session_ids` string[]
  - `work_item_ids` string[]
  - `transcription_ids` string[]

## Response `202`

Queued, active, or completed receipt

- object
  - `purge_id` string, required
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `attempt` integer, required
  - `status` 'queued' | 'in_progress' | 'failed' | 'completed', required
  - `matter_id` string, required
  - `vault_id` string, required
  - `workflow_id` string, nullable, required
  - `terminal_event_id` string, nullable
  - `failure_code` string, nullable
  - `counts` object
  - `requested_at` string, date-time
  - `started_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `failed_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `completed_at` string, date-time, nullable

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request or target count
- `401`: Invalid API key
- `403`: Matter write scope required
- `404`: Owned Matter or target not found
- `409`: Content in use, already claimed, or request ID conflict
- `503`: Durable dispatch remains pending; reuse the same request ID

## Changes

- **2026-10-16** `a21d188f4b21`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/casemark/apis/case-dev-api/changes/matters/v1/:id/content-purges/post.md)

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